Species
Lactarius pallescens
Lactarius pallescens. Photo: (c) corndog, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Lactarius pallescens is a Western North American “milk-cap” mushroom, of which the milk turns violet when the flesh is damaged. The fungi generally identified as L. pallescens are part of a complex of closely related species and varieties which have a peppery taste and are difficult to delimit definitively, .
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